Should young students do a lot of homework?

well in my country, theirs a rule where they cannot give assignments in the weekends. But unfortunately i haven't experienced that rule. I feel that sometimes schools gives a lot of homework that they have no time to play and such.

Now I pulled my kids out of public school years ago and have no plans to send them back to that absurdity. I know here there would be much less need for home work if they would stop turning on the TV in the classrooms. Stop letting the kids play games on the computers and stop teaching for tests and teach what needs to be taught instead of sending home to be learned. The kids sit in school 9 - 10 hours a day and to send home hours upon hours of work a day is absurd. Then they complain parents need to make the kids get exercise when they send 5 hours of home work home. When would they like them to be children?

I think doing a lot of homework doesn't really help the students. In my opinion, it's better to study smart than study hard. The teachers could provide different types of work/assignments/questions in the homework instead of making them doing repetitive work. The teachers could also make the learning fun so that the students are able to grasp the knowledge. I think giving too much homework would make the younger ones lose their interest in school. Cheers.

My son was in the kindy stage now and same like other students, also need to do many homeworks daily. Although he is still at the tender age but he seems need to hold a very high responsibility towards his study. Sometimes, i do feels pity for the children who are still young in age, which need to do many homeworks. But, students seems need to do many homeworks, so they can get to understand their subject of study much better. I hope in future, the education department won't implement much more homeworks for students to do.

My son is in kindergarten and they only have assignments on Fridays that would be done on a weekend. They don’t have assignments on a weekday. I don’t think they should do so many homework so they can also have time to play and just enjoy their childhood.

I don't think that the young students should do a lot of homework after school hours. My daughter is in school for 8hrs. When she comes home, she still has a lot of homework to do and I pity her.

In my view, all homework should be very specific and given in such way that an average student must complete it at one sitting of three hours or two sittings of two hours each at home daily! Beyond this, the home work becomes a burden and learning looses its charm! Our syllabus designing experts must keep in mind this point and also implement it. Thanks!!

Hi scheng1, certain famous schools with their good reputation attract lots of parents chasing to send their kids there. I notice that students studying in these school usually have heavy load of homework to cope with often. I learn this from my friends as well as neighbors children. Yeah, here the situation is almost the same, not all the assignments done are marked by the teachers. The student exchange their assignments and marked according to the answer written on the board or from the answer sheets. Such schools are mostly located in town area. The teachers believe that doing more exercises would help their students to get higher score. I prefer students to have more time to do extra reading. Other than learning in school reading more books would help them to acquire more knowledge and info from the textbooks and school exercises. Students will lose their interest in study if spending too much time to deal with the homework. This will exploit their usual outdoor physical activity time as well Yeah, it's always wise to do smart work than hard work Happy posting homework, school, student, assignment, do smart work rather than hard work

I always disagree that students should do a lot of homework. In my country the children and parents all suffer high pressure. The study pressure gives everybody a nightmare. I don't think it will be helpful for them to study. It will drive the passion away and students start to feel tired to the study. And if they spend long time doing homework everyday, how they can have little spare time for themselves? They also have their own interests. I love China

It depends on the teacher and the school whether students have a lot of homework. I do believe that they need at least an hour's homework per night, to get them used to mental and personal discipline, but I don't think they should go to school all day and then spend 3-4 hours on homework. Even most adults don't do that in their jobs! Kids should be allowed to enjoy their childhood and teen years.

Hi. scheng1. I think that they should have enough of homework and not what they want them to have. My son gets a homework packet every Monday. He has to write sentences with his vocabulary words. And he also has to write his vocabulary words five times each. His homework packet consists of math, language, spelling and reading skills. He has about seven to eight sheets that he has to do. And all of them are front and back too. If he is lucky, he may get up to five sheets that is front and back. It is a lot of homework, but he has to turn all of this homework in on Friday's. This gives him enough of time to complete it each and everyday, before Friday. This is how it is with my son. My daughter on the other hand has homework every weekend. She will get homework every Friday. And I always turn her homework in on Monday of the following week. She has up to three to four sheets, and they are not front and back sheets either. Her homework consists of her tracing and writing letters, shape coordination, matching and numerical sequences. Her homework is very easy. Sometimes both her and her brother has coloring that they have to do as well. I just think that my son has weigh too much of homework. I am glad that he is doing it, because he is learning valuable skills that will help him excel into school much better. I feel this same way about my daughter, except that she does not have so much of homework.

Yes it a very much common problem here too and am sure in many parts of the world.But i think it is no necessary that students should be given a lot of homework to solve.Because the main aim for the teachers towards students should be that they are able to understand the basics of the topic which is being taught in the class.And if the students are doing this,then there is no sense to provide so much loads of homework.Yes,in some subjects which needs practice,like maths,homework should be given but in limits. My mother is a teacher,and she too is against this.But the main question is will the cruel teachers ever understand this? every teacher are not cruel but every teacher are not good too.

My kids are in elementary school, and they get WAY too much homework and too many "projects." Their hours of homework a night translate into hours of work for me as well. The projects are all done by the parents, and the few times I made my kids do their projects completely by themselves, they were graded lower than the kids whose parents had done the work. So what is the point? Some homework, to reinforce what has been learned, is ideal. But hours and hours of homework only instills in kids a dislike of school, and limits their ability to do anything else.

Homework should be moderate. more focus needs to be placed on actual classroom learning. Homework was supposedly designed to check for understanding and reinforce retention.

No. As they say it in English all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Too much homework can make the kids improve their academic performance, but not on interpersonal skills. Their creative minds will be stifled. In general they will grow up with a narrow viewpoint of life. This is without taking into consideration the stress that they face in having to finish off a pile of homework. In general students in my country always have a lot of homework to do even during school holidays. There are teachers who refrain from burdening the students. At the same time several MARA Junior Science Colleges are trying to bring back the fun in learning.

No. I mean, everything should be in balance. Like, too much studying isn't good. It could lead to stress and may leave the students not wanting to study anymore. Too much relaxation on the other hand will get you low-to-failing grades. Just like studying, too much school works should not be given to students. Many often tell us that it's for the future, so that we'll get used to work a lot of things. However, doing a lot of homeworks will take too much of the student's time. Then the students will realize that he/she's doing a lot of work on a single stuff than have finished other important things he/she should have done, like reviewing for the exams, eat, and/or sleep. Lot of homeworks could also lead to a lack sleep, which affects our brain functions. If you haven't slept normally, brain cells will die in a shorter time than it usually does. So it has the chain reaction. Students will get more dumb, instead of learning something.

Primary education is taken very seriously nowadays. Expectations of parents are increasing day by day. Parents want their child to become superchild in a year. They want their child to come first in each class. Teachers are also in habit of loading student with lots of homework which is not good. I think, at primary level, students go to school for about six hours which is enough for them. There should not be any homework to do after school, but this is not practiced anywhere. In India, there are some school which do not give homework and if they give any that is done in the school itself with the help of the teacher.

Teachers has the responsible to facilitate the learning outcome in any student or classroom the teacher is the guide and failitator.

I think, its not necessary to do lot of homework. But its very important to do all types of problems or work. this is because quality matters more than the quantity. Its not necessary to solve 100 problems of same type, but it is sufficient to solve 10 problems of 10 different types, just we should know the tact...

Some Students didnt have a lot of that.